Jekyll Up And Running

07 May 2015
Written by Jiwan Ghosal

I am in Love with Jekyll

Install –> configure –> Post –> Done

Step1: Installation

~ $ gem install jekyll

~ $ jekyll new Name-of-your-site

~ $ cd Name-of-your-site

~/Name-of-your-site $ jekyll serve

Test installation

=> Now browse to http://localhost:4000

Step2: configuration

In _config.yml or _config.yaml in Name-of-your-site folder edit or add following lines:

baseurl: /Name-of-your-site
name: Name-of-your-site
markdown: redcarpet
pygments: true

Step3: Post

In _posts folder create a .md file named as yyyy-mm-dd-TitleOfPost . In this file first few lines are called [YAML Front Matter] where we assign which layout to use..? ,what is the post title..?, what is the date..?, Which categories..?,what is tag..? For example:-

---
layout: post
title: Jekyll Up And Running
cover: cover.jpg
date:   2015-05-07 22:32:00
categories: posts
---

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